Wet clothes and powder laden faces

HAPPY THAI NEW YEAR.

or better yet, buy a hose! A brief explanation about what i've been doing lately.
WET, more wet, dirty, powder face, and more wet.

Kids on the back of pick up trucks wielding buckets full of water on the look out for dry souls like my self. Then comes the innocent ladies who own food stalls that smile at you when you walk past and then out from nowhere comes out the biggest water projecting gun i've seeen in my life, let alone wandering how much of thailands water supply is in there. Then next thing you know you are so drenched even the sun is laughing at you. I couldn't take any photos cause my army purse belt could only accomidate my triple plastic covered money and my lip balm which i lost in the crowd of wet 20 something thais. This is the strangest new year celebration ever.

There must have been like 6 drunk thai kids bored out of hell on there new year party and thought that if they took loads of water and chucked at people on the street for 3 consective days they would be having so much fun. Okay so it was a lot of fun on the first day, and i even wielded my water cannon and got a lof of old ladies and babies in the face. yeah das right even babies are game for it all, cause god knows they cant speak and say i shit my self but they know who is dry and needs a soaking!

The water is not sooo bad, what is bad is the gooy mixture of old pancake batter they slather on your face, i think it's part flour and part bangkok rain water they have saved for a year. But it smells and people carry buckets of it and plaster it on you. All you can do now is actually ask someone to spray water on your face and get it off from your face.

It's all good fun, and it lasts all day and night, and then the techno music starts blaring, next thing you know your in a thai rave wet, soaked and plastered, and wanting so bad to take a shower. You look around and there are police men getting sprayed with water guns while they try to do some dance moves on the streets they should be trafficing.

The sad note is that there are a lof of accidents that happen on these days. 71% of all moter accidents happen on these 3 days. It is easy to see why, since thais are mad and they ride their motor bikes like maniacs and when you have people chucking water at your face going 60khm i can see why it is so easy to i don't know fall off your bike and come crashing down on your pancake face, i think the ones that invented the water fun also thought this would be a great way to kill off those jerks on the motor bikes.

on my way to center bangkok wielding my water gun in the taxi, the taxi driver was a lot of fun and would drive really slowly and let me open my window down a bit so i could hit some people on the street, bless him.

i'm soo glad it's over now.